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Issues with Amazon Athena ODBC Driver

Bulletin ID: 2026-013-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/04/03 13:00 PM PDT Description: The Amazon Athena ODBC driver implements standard ODBC application program interfaces (APIs). The ODBC driver provides access to Amazon Athena from any C/C++ application. The Amazon Athena ODBC driver provides 64-bit ODBC drivers for Windows, Linux and MAC operating systems. We identified the following: - CVE-2026-5485: OS command injection in browser-based authentication component (Linux only, fixed in 2.0.5.1) - CVE-2026-35558: Improper neutralization of special elements in authentication components - CVE-2026-35559: Out-of-bounds write in query processing components - CVE-2026-35560: Improper certificate validation in identity provider connection components - CVE-2026-35561: Insufficient authentication security controls in browser-based authentication components - CVE-2026-35562: Allocation of resources without limits in parsing components Impacted versions: CVE-2026-5485 was addressed in 2.0.5.1 (Linux only). The remaining five (CVE-2026-35558 through CVE-2026-35562) were addressed in version 2.1.0.0 and apply to all supported platforms Please refer to the article below for the most up-to-date and complete information related to this AWS Security Bulletin.

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We identified the following: - CVE-2026-5485: OS command injection in browser-based authentication component (Linux only, fixed in 2.0.5.1) - CVE-2026-35558: Improper neutralization of special elements in authentication components - CVE-2026-35559: Out-of-bounds write in query processing components - CVE-2026-35560: Improper certificate validation in identity provider connection components - CVE-2026-35561: Insufficient authentication security controls in browser-based authentication components - CVE-2026-35562: Allocation of resources without limits in parsing components Impacted versions: CVE-2026-5485 was addressed in 2.0.5.1 (Linux only).

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